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- Yves Bonnefoy was born on July 24, 1923 in Tours, France. He was a writer, known for Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960), Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018) and Le roi Lear (1965). He was married to Lucille Vines. He died on July 1, 2016 in Paris, France.
- SpouseLucille Vines(1968 - July 1, 2016) (his death, 1 child)
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 136, pages 26-30. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Father of Mathilde Bonnefoy.
- He taught literature at several American universities, including Brandeis, the City University of New York, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Yale.
- He was widely regarded as France's leading poet of the post-WWII era, as well as its leading translator of Shakespeare.
- He studied mathematics at the University of Poitiers.
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